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Re: Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

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Post by rubatuga » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 3:15 AM UTC

p1mrx wrote: post #210

rubatuga wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not directly competing with Helm, but we at Hoppy Network provide a static IP over WireGuard. It came out of a desire for "truly private email". We provide: Clean IPv4 + IPv6 address, Reverse DNS, unblocked ports, unfiltered ICMP It's priced reasonably to keep bad actors out: https://hoppy.network We have a $60/year plan in the works, which will be available before the end of this year.

I like the idea of decoupling residential IP service from a physical ISP, but I'd be worried about getting blocked by Netflix, like Hurricane Electric's tunnel broker. Has Hoppy managed to avoid those problems?

Nope, Netflix blocked us pretty quick. Geo-blocks are the worst.

Re: Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 3:35 AM UTC

azinman2 wrote: post #155

old-gregg wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In a very boring and traditional way: you buy a domain name, configure dynamic DNS, and then use port forwarding in your home firewall. No 3rd party proxies.

Not sure that makes me anymore comfortable! Open port to my storage from the internet? But I’m glad they’re not backdooring anything….

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Re: Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

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Post by someonehere » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 5:16 AM UTC

Considered this for home. Then asked myself, “what happens if they’re gone in five years? I’ll be looking for the next thing to replace this.”

If Google or Apple made something like this, I’d bite. However I don’t know who these people are, how much runway they have left, life expectancy of the product, and how open and secure this is.

Re: Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

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Post by footlose_3815 » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 10:47 AM UTC

It’s a hard drive that requires a subscription it’s no different than another cloud service, actually they charge you more because they require their hardware.

Re: Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

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Post by tonoto » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 1:33 PM UTC

But why another hardware appliance in the home? I'm turned off by having another hardware device at my home.

If it instead was a turnkey solution or a virtual appliance, that I could put besides my already existing instances, that might catch my interest.

Re: Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

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Post by amarant » Thu, Sep 02, 2021, 4:10 PM UTC

lancesells wrote: post #198

amarant wrote: post #195

No, helm is a tool for installing and managing applications in a kubernetes cluster. You've named your product wrong.

There can be many helms. In my world Helm is a synth: https://tytel.org/helm/

I mean sure, and it's also where you steer a boat from.

But now there are 2 helms in the hosting world, which means neither context nor name is distinguishable between the two.

So they named it wrong.